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Genealogical tables. Genealogies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents representing the lineage of a person or persons in tabular or diagrammatic form.

Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript family trees rolled into scrolls, relating to research for 'King hereafter' by Dorothy Dunnett., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12135/145-147
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: Undated.

Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood, chiefly leaves found loose in MSS.1872-1877., 1775-1814.

 File
Identifier: MS.1878
Scope and Contents

Also included are: a State of Terregles Parish, 1776 (folio 24); a printed ‘Song for the Duddingston Curling Society’, 1817, with manuscript notes of the names of the persons mentioned (folio 26); and two leaves printed from John Philp Wood's biographies of the Presidents of the Court of Session (Adv.MS.37.2.1, pages 1-19), showing that he intended to publish them (folio 28).

Dates: 1775-1814.

Miscellaneous items relating to Jessy Harden and her family., 1801-1811, [?1945.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.8870 (1)-(3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1801-1811, [?1945.]

Miscellaneous legal and genealogical documents.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12764-12766

Miscellaneous papers relating to the MacLeods of Geanies., 1672-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.19308
Scope and Contents The papers include a letter of 1672 from Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie to David Corbat of Ballingall (folio 1), and genealogical tables and notes of the MacLeods of Assynt and Geanies, 1739 to early 20th century (folio 2). Also, correspondence of William Palmer and his wife, Mary, sister to Margaret Crawford the wife of Donald MacLeod, 3rd of Geanies, 1796-1824. The letters are chiefly from George and James Crawford and discuss the dispute between the two brothers over the finances of the...
Dates: 1672-early 20th century.

‘Napoleonic autographs’., 1783-1846.

 File
Identifier: MS.9315
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1783-1846.

‘Notices of the life of the Rev. John Carstaires’ by William Ferrie (Edinburgh, 1843), with annotations and corrections to the genealogical tables by John Dunlop of Gairbraid and J G Dunlop., 1843, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9300
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates: 1843, undated.

Papers concerning the claim of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn to the Earldom of Dundee., 16th century-17th century, 1843.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.11
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of a genealogical table, and draft statements and opinion by John Riddell, 1843, and undated (folios 1-160), extracts made apparently in 1846 of 16th- and 17th-century public records relating to members of the family (folios 161-179), and a small miscellany of other papers (folios 180-190).

Dates: 16th century-17th century, 1843.

Papers concerning the Mackenzies, MacRaes and Mathesons of Lochalsh and Kintail, Wester Ross, collected by Captain Alexander and Betsy Matheson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9548
Scope and Contents

Concerning genealogy, history and traditions of the families.

Dates: circa 1860-1909.

Papers concerning William Marshall and Brodie Cruickshank.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8286
Scope and Contents

Including typescript of Pierluigi Valsecchi`s theses, 1979, concerning Cruickshank.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family

2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family

3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling

4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers of Michael Strachan relating to the publication of 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life'., 1961-1990.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11154/13-47
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Dates: 1961-1990.

Papers of the Reverend James Cumming.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5931
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, sermons, and lectures, with a genealogical tree showing the family of the Reverend Prof David Cairns and his connection with Cumming.

Dates: 1853-1892.

Papers of the Reverend John Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9400
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical tables and diaries concerning the Brown family.

Dates: circa 1774-1832.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents

This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.

Dates: 15th century-1814.